Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-08-03
FINANCE AND TRADE.

ton b. var Of he switehhaak Gna Sitn
that II visS they have besu neR0tiAtinz
Nth tie PuRet MHI C0mpany fer Tie
eonstrustion Of . suitable warehouse II
Seattle foE storinR the grsin on 10 ~
rival Il woaId be . good thing for TIE
city II the wareho7sss when constructed,
woald Be large sn0s9h 70 store the
Paest Sound oas orop in a. well.
Very little vol remains in the hands
Of Puest soand growers. TIE crop has
been q large an4 profitable one this
year. II Is encouraging 10 note q won
dsEful impsovsment made b. PuRet
Sound vool growers in the matter OF
pattinR elean Heeess on the msrkst.
Two years ago 10 vas the rule 10 receive
hlshy neecss, filed with ''taes," bufs.
dirt and moisture. Nov 10 Is the ez-
osption 10 note such . Wsnt Of thrift.
Farmers have learned that they can re-
csive much higher prices and ind
quicker sales BY using little
care 10 send their hssees 10 market IN .
clean condition One exception this
syEing vas where 3 grower had opened
each Asecs Just before marketing and
saturated the inside With water. The
outside of the fleece, when rolled up,
vas perfectly dry. However. the buyer
was shrevd. and the grower was cOu-
PEELED TO submit to 9 good round re-
duotion. The Puget Sound Hide Depot
has shipped aboat 10000 pounds of
this years crop 10 Eastern firms over
the Canadian Pacific Railway. One
half OF this amount vas received by
them from Eastern Washington via the
switchback. The season Of 1888 will
very likely show vast improvement
even over these encouraging figures.
PRODUCE RECEIPTS. - Past "a
hours include 81 packages butter, IS
cases eggs, 81 sacks potatoes, sacks
sweets, 63 sacks onions, Is sacks oats,
100 sacks flour, 2l5 sacks feed, 125 sacks
cereals, 5Il sacks millstufs, 1850 pack
ages fruit, sacks wool, Al bundles
hides, 3 bundles pslts, 5 coops chickens,
81 cattle, 8 calves, horses. The total
cargo Of the steamship Mexico meas
ured 1905 tons, OF which 40 tons were
/ for Seattle merchants.
SHIPMENTS-GeneE meFchandise
vas skipped from Seattle during the
past "a hours In the following quantities:
q. & 2. s. z. Il. tons, P. 8. {. Line Z
| tons, steamer George z. Starr / ton.
Emma Hayward l ton, City Of Q1iney
tons, Fleetwood toas, Nellie tons and
Fanny Lake ton.
HIDES-Market weak. Quote: green,
6sd7 cents per pound; dry, I2(6l4 cents;
calf skins, green, 8 cents; dry, l2Gi4
cents per pound.
WOOL-Very little left unmarketed
Prices offered, 2ld22 oests per pound.
| OATS-Market fairly we'll supplied
Quotations a. follows: B0ving, $50
30 per ton; jObbinR. $3l@32; retail
$3.50 per GENITAL or SIS per ton.
WHEAT-RetaileFs give quotations al
81 per GENITAL or $3.50 per ton.
Blu FTER-Market firm. Rstsilers
ask 65 cents per roll Of two pounds, best
| grades.
| EGGS--MArket weaker with large re.
oeipts. Price 10 retail market, 80 cent:
per dozsD.
POrATOES-wholssals, 161ll4 cents
retail, 1L6llS cents per pound.
| ONION5-UaiifoRuia wholesale, 81 *
per GENITAL; retail, 2J1 cents per pound
Money and Markets.
| EXCHANGE.
New YoRK, Aug. Mooney on call
easy at 31S6 per cent. closed, offered
3; prime paper, b1196; sterling ex
change, dull and weak az &fSls[ fol
sixty days, and S4.SS91 for demand.
BONDS.
| EUurB, eoupon. .lfo1i
F0ur and one-halfs, coupon. -. l0e9Si
PSciflc skies. LIZ
STOCKS.
American Express, 108; Canadian
Pacific, 56A; Canada Soathern, 90
Central PacIfie, 35Sl; Burlington, 1877
Delaware, Lackavana d Western, l27
Denver & Rio Grande, 1851; Miohi
gau Central, 50; Kansas 4 Texas
25tl; New York Central, 1868
Northern Pacific. 32lE, preferred. 5S14
Northwestern 1ll4; Oregon Improve
ment, a; Oregon Navigation 901S
Oregon Trauscontinental. "a; Pacific
Mail, BIN; Rock Island, l36; 50. Paui
1874; Texas Pacific. $3.50; Union Pacific
5Sst; United States Express, 65; Wells
Fargo Express. 12S; Western Union
rs; EEis, 2Ssl; Lake Shore, 81 a
Louisville 4 Nashville, 6lsi.
STOCK MARKET IN NEW YORK.
NEw YoRK, Aug. 2.-The street va.
illed today with vague rumors Of i'm
pending trouble, though nothing OF q
definite nature was made public Ose
small failure was announced, which
however, had no effect on the course II
prices. Buyers of yesterday, including
most Of the Influential room tFsdeFF
we're steady sellers throughout the day
and the market vas feverish and veal
during q greater part of the day, tbs
rallies being feeble and spssm ldic
Tbs active list, With few exceptions
Is lower. New England and New r
sey Central lost 3 per cent, Reading
2%, New England, ~ Missouri P1oifi,
llX. Western Union and Delaware
L1okaVAns 4 Western ~. Omaha 4
Richuond aud Union Pacids and Pert
and DssstnF and Evansville Ia, Pa
eihc Nail aud Colorado Coal l.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
EnhI1aANnt aug L. hheGt-Ot6e
markets a shade firmsr az noon. Ga
own waits the arrival OF Eev, which i
delayed By the conditions Of the Sal
Francisco market.
Olts-Holders rather frm bat ID
tendency is greatly IN bayers' favor.
POtatoss-CalifoFnia selling al 3
cents. Supply quite full.
OniOns-Seliiug at % per hundred
weight
Batter--Callfot roll, choice, z
cents per pound. Oregon sells promptly
10 good.
ESgs-Sssady At 22is cents yer aozsn
sAS FRAScIsco NABKErs.
SkS RRAScrsCo, Aug. 2.-The vhsa
J market showed sn inclination TO b
} slightly top heavy today, and did no
receive the fuli support Of the ais
Seller 1881 declined three oeuts, olakinl
for the dsv at s. IL.
Aug. /, Rseeipts- Wheat, IL, 500 cen
tais; hoar, 500 az SKIS; osts. nont
barley, 1880 cts; potstCes, S400 SKIS
ChArseFed-Spot for Cork, L. K, BIZ
bark Scottish Wizard. iro1. !, 80 tons a
! %. By Dresb3oh. Fer coal. from De
! pasure Bay, Boil bars Don Carlos.
Tonnage IN port engaged. 81 90 tons
disenQaeed, 1000 tons listed 10 arrive,
r.